SOUTH AFRICA: Yellow Mud

South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel
Malan pressed a stubby finger to a small gold button one day last week
and touched off a $112 million uranium industry. There had been hints
that South Africa was in the atomic business, but this was the first
firm news that the country was producing uranium on a scale that is
expected to net $84 million a year.

Back in 1945 the late Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts phoned Calvin
Stowe McLean, president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines: "Is it true
that there's uranium in our gold mines?" McLean told Smuts: "Yes, but
it...